On this day: 24 November
Events, births and deaths on 24 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Dharmendra
- Deaths · Jimmy Cliff
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Florence Henderson
100 years ago1926
- Births · Tsung-Dao Lee
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1072 · Deaths · Bagrat IV of Georgia
Events · 24
- 1221(Julian date)Battle of Indus — battle fought at the Indust river between Khwarazm and the Mongols (1221 AD)
- 1429Siege of La Charité — 1429 battle of the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War
- 1542(Julian date)Battle of Solway Moss — English victory over Scotland, 1542
- 1643Battle of Tuttlingen — 1643 battle of the Thirty Years' War
- 1850Battle of Lottorf — 1850 battle of the First Schleswig War
- 1863Battle of Lookout Mountain — 1863 battle of the American Civil War
- 1894Revive China Society — political organization (est. 1894) with the goal of establishing prosperity for China
- 1918Podgorica Assembly — 1918 meeting of Montenegrin officials to discuss unification with Serbia
- 1925Eugene O'Neill Theatre — Broadway theater in Manhattan, New York
- 1932FBI Laboratory — US FBI forensic laboratory
- 1962That Was The Week That Was — television series
- 1966TABSO Flight 101 — crash in 1966, near Bratislava in Slovakia
- 1969Hang Seng Index — Stock market index in Hong Kong
- 1976Muradiye earthquake of 1976 — 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Van in eastern Turkey on November 24, 1976
- 1992China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 — 1992 plane crash of a China Southern Airlines Boeing 737-300 on approach to Guilin Airport, China
- 2001Crossair Flight 3597 — aviation accident
- 20122012 Dhaka fire — fatal industrial accident
- 2013Joint Plan of Action — 2013 agreement on the nuclear program of Iran
- 20152015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown — shootdown of a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M bomber aircraft by Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jets
- 20152015 Tunis bombing — terrorist attack in Tunisia
- 20172017 Sinai mosque attack — terrorist bombing in a Sinai mosque, Egypt
- 2018
- 20192019 Hong Kong District Council election — election held in Hong Kong
- 20222022 Ürümqi fire — high-rise fire in Xinjiang, China
Births · 60
- 1394(Julian date)Charles I, Duke of Orléans — French duke and poet (1394-1465)
- 1615Philip William, Elector Palatine — German nobleman (1615-1690)
- 1632Benedictus de Spinoza — Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
- 1655Charles XI of Sweden — King of Sweden from 1660 to 1697 (1655-1697)
- 1713Laurence Sterne — Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric (1713–1768)
- 1724Maria Amalia of Saxony — Queen consort of Spain (1724-1760)
- 1729Alexander Suvorov — Russian marshal (1730–1800)
- 1745Maria Luisa of Spain — Empress Consort of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1784Zachary Taylor — president of the United States from 1849 to 1850
- 1826Carlo Collodi — Italian writer (1826–1890)
- 1849Frances Hodgson Burnett — English-American playwright and author (1849–1924)
- 1864Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — French painter and illustrator (1864–1901)
- 1868Scott Joplin — American composer, musician, pianist (1867/68-1917)
- 1869Óscar Carmona — 11th Portuguese president (1926-1951)
- 1873Yuly Martov — Russian politician (1873–1923)
- 1876Walter Burley Griffin — American architect and landscape architect (1876-1937)
- 1877Alben W. Barkley — vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953
- 1884Yitzhak Ben-Zvi — 2nd President of Israel (1952–1963) - (1884–1963)
- 1887Erich von Manstein — German field marshal (1887-1973)
- 1888Dale Carnegie — American writer and lecturer (1888-1955)
- 1897Lucky Luciane — Italian American mobster (1897–1962)
- 1898Liu Shaoqi — 2nd President of the People's Republic of China (1898–1969)
- 1899Soraya Tarzi — Princess Consort (1919-1926), later Queen Consort of King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan (1926-1929)
- 1908Libertad Lamarque — Argentine actress and singer (1908–2000)
- 1913Geraldine Fitzgerald — Irish-American actress (1913–2005)
Deaths · 60
- 654(Julian date)Kōtoku — Emperor of Japan (596–654, r. 645–654)
- 1072(Julian date)Bagrat IV of Georgia — King of Georgia
- 1227(Julian date)Leszek I the White — High Duke of Poland (1186-1227)
- 1326(Julian date)Hugh Despenser the Younger — English peer and favorite of Edward II
- 1425(Julian date)Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter — English noblewoman
- 1468(Julian date)Jean de Dunois — French noble (1402-1468)
- 1531(Julian date)Johannes Oecolampadius — German religious reformer (1482-1531)
- 1572(Julian date)John Knox — Scottish clergyman, writer and historian (1514–1572)
- 1577(Julian date)Ismail II — Safavid Shah of Iran from 1576 to 1577
- 1615Sethus Calvisius — German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer, and teacher
- 1661Zheng Zhilong — Chinese merchant, pirate, admiral (1604-1661)
- 1722Johann Adam Reincken — Dutch/German composer and organist (1643-1722)
- 1741Ulrika Eleonora I of Sweden — queen regnant of Sweden from 1718 to 1720 (1688–1741)
- 1801Franz Moritz von Lacy — Austrian field marshal (1725-1801)
- 1807Joseph Brant — Mohawk leader (1742-1807)
- 1848William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne — British politician (1779–1848)
- 1870Comte de Lautréamont — Uruguayan born French poet, Isidore Ducasse (1846-1870)
- 1916Hiram Stevens Maxim — American-born inventor (1840-1916)
- 1920Alexandru Macedonski — Wallachian-born Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic (1854-1920)
- 1922Erskine Childers — Irish nationalist and author (1870-1922)
- 1929Georges Clemenceau — Prime Minister of France, 1906–1909 and 1917–1920 (1841–1929)
- 1940Saionji Kinmochi — Japanese politician (1849-1940)
- 1943Doris Miller — first African American recipient of the Navy Cross (1919–1943)
- 1956Guido Cantelli — Italian conductor (1920–1956)
- 1957Diego Rivera — Mexican muralist (1886–1957)
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